Former president Donald Trump shares one key similarity with America's founding fathers: heavy makeup. But in one recent public appearance, Trump's foundation seemed to lack a solid constitution.
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00:00Former President Donald Trump shares one key similarity with America's founding fathers
00:05— heavy makeup. But in one recent public appearance, Trump's foundation seemed to lack
00:10a solid constitution. The 45th President of the United States is so well-known for his
00:15unusual orange hue that even his supporters don't deny it. Some even embrace it as a point
00:21of pride.
00:22The light's no good. I always look orange.
00:25While there have been a few points during the 2024 presidential election in which it
00:28seemed that perhaps Trump had decided to tone down his deep bronze look, it seems he
00:33just can't let his old beauty habits go. At an October 7 event at the Trump National Doral
00:38Golf Club in Miami, his makeup looked oddly like a bizarre mask attached to his face.
00:43The event was to mark the passage of one year since Hamas attacked Israel, killing hundreds
00:48of people and taking 254 hostages, leading to months of bombings in Gaza. Trump delivered
00:54remarks about the conflict, but it was a little hard to pay attention because of the
00:58clear line between his cosmetics and his natural skin tone on the right side of his face.
01:03Trump always looks a little unusual, given that he's usually wearing heavy makeup and
01:07that his hairdo has long seemed to be an attempt to hide his natural hairline. Plus, there
01:12are those weirdly long ties. But after decades in the public eye, the public has gotten pretty
01:17used to how he looks, which makes it even more unnerving to see the seams when they
01:22Perhaps a beauty blender or a makeup brush could have done away with the harsh line between
01:26Donald Trump's skin tone and his mask of makeup. But one has to wonder why he went for such
01:31a bronze look to begin with, considering that he seemed to be toning things down after hitting
01:36peak orange back during the 2020 election.
01:39Makeup artist Chris Blevins, who has done Trump's makeup on multiple occasions, told
01:44Fast Company that sometimes the former president needs to be talked down. She said,
01:48He will look and go,
01:49Do I need more color? And I say,
01:51No, you don't. Trust me.
01:53So maybe the makeup artist he has been working with most recently is giving into those more
01:57color impulses. Or maybe Trump, in the last push toward Election Day on November 5th,
02:03isn't listening to the advice of his staffers. That seemed to be the case at an October 14th
02:08Pennsylvania town hall, where the former president opted to simply dance to music for over half
02:13an hour instead of answering more questions.
02:16Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music.
02:21Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?
02:25Makeup wasn't the problem at the town hall, but in the days since the October 7th event,
02:30Trump's makeup problems have persisted at other events where he has been photographed
02:33with harsh, unblended makeup. And people have been taking notice. One person posted to ex-formerly
02:39Twitter,
02:40Why are his people letting Donald Trump go on stage and TV like this? Why don't they
02:44fix his makeup?
02:45Another tweet likened his unnatural makeup color to the colonial maple shade of Minwax
02:49wood finish. Yet another joked,
02:52Breaking! Donald Trump is being rushed to the emergency room after his face fell off.
02:56Apparently, aggregate weight of spray tan and makeup became too much.
03:01There's no real indication that makeup is causing any health problems for the former
03:04president, but his health has become a campaign issue in the home stretch of the race.
03:09The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man.
03:13Fox News reports that, in an October 13th letter, a group of more than 230 doctors requested
03:18that Trump release his medical records for public review.